2012-2013: Thank You

AP/Kevin Frayer

This photo was taken at India Gate in New Delhi, India, during peaceful protests brought on by the December 2012 gang rape (and subsequent death) of the woman alternately called Damini, Amanat, or Nirbhaya by the media. The woman in the photo was protesting peacefully and walking through water cannons being fired by police to quell the protest. I hope this image represents an anger and movement that will carry until lasting change is made in India. It also represents a spirit I see rising up throughout the world. This has in many ways been a year filled with unimaginable tragedy and what has hit me with the most force is the violence and brutality we've seen against ordinary people who were stopped in the midst of simply living their lives. But the hope we have is that never before have we had such such ability to connect worldwide to help each other. What this image represents to me is how I feel about the world in 2012 moving into 2013, with ordinary people continuing to raise their voices against injustice around the world. Thank you to each of you for the work you do in ensuring we move forward. I hope your New Year is full of joy, kindness, beauty, wild fun, and good works.

An attorney by training from New York University School of Law, Lina has been involved in campaigns for several documentaries, including Oscar-winning Born into Brothels, Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback, Oscar-winning Inocente, and Sundance-award winning Who Is Dayani Cristal?

The creator of the Transmedia Activism framework, which guides the development of media, art, and technology projects from story to social action, she is currently one of a handful of people in the world creating narrative-based social change initiatives with NGOs, global institutions, and independent media creators, combining both field experience with skills in documentary engagement and transmedia design.

Lina provides workshops, consultations, keynote addresses, panel discussions, and speeches on the rise of storytelling, narrative platforms, and social innovation as tools for social change, including at Yale Law School, Lincoln Center, MIT Media Lab, TEDx, and the Tribeca Film Festival.

The former Executive Director of Kids with Cameras, and the Association of Video and Filmmakers, Lina has taught design and social entrepreneurship at Parsons, The New School of Design, and is on faculty in the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Design and Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, Lina received her BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and also studied at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, the Hastings Center for Bioethics, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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